Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce Thursday a temporary GST break on essential items to help with affordability pressures.
I am curious how PEE PEE is going to rail against this measure, hmm.
I wonder if apples are on the list for no GST??
In actual social democratic countries, their VATs are applied both at higher levels and on more goods than we do.
Also VAT taxes are considering one of the less destructive taxes. It's visible so the mouth breathers get all sex nuts and retard strong over it but raising the GST and HST in favor of lowering other taxes would be better policy. But much like what's his face and his Green Shift, that is way to complicated for a population with a 2 second attention span and a borderline retarded level of knowledge on the topic.
Say what you will about their size of government, they have to be keen on raising taxes efficiently. Which is also why they gave up on wealth taxes and other eat the rich policies, but apparently Bernie never got that memo either.
Bad idea, sounds good on the surface but it isn't really. There are other options that would be better. But judging public policy to it's possible alternative, sigh, why am I ghey.
Also Jospeh Heath argues quite correctly that the solution to something being too expensive isn't subsidizing it [which this basically is] and sure as hell not price controls but working on the income side. Then you let people allocate their resources based on what they need on a neutral basis.
Also pretty much all the important shit is already GST free. Actual proper food, escorts. Funny how in the thumbnail the foreground is fruits which don't have the GST.
All that being said Pierre Poulet will never actually bring up the problems with this policy because even if he understands it [Harper would], he would know that your average voter doesn't know nor care.
Too long, didn't read. Everyone likes paying less tax [well almost everyone. But
1: With a deficit it isn't possible and
2: There are more efficient ways to lower the tax bill
Lowering the GST bad, [even when Harper did it on everything], picking favorites even worse. That is some Justin Beiber level bullshit there.